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Cilla Black [1943-2015] British

Rank: 102
Musician, Singer

Priscilla Maria Veronica White OBE, known by her stage name Cilla Black, was an English singer, television presenter, actress, and author.

Business, Diet, Equality, Romantic, Sad

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I intend to grow old very disgracefully.		101
I never did acid, I am just so high anyway.		102
I've had a blessed life. I've pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to accepting whatever fate has in store for me. I live for today because I don't know what'll happen tomorrow.		103
I loved everything about show business, meeting the stars, the whole ambience. I was living every young kid's dream. I was told a pop singer's life was three years, but I was still making money seven years later.	Business	104
I love books and the latest autobiographies. I'm a Gemini and love being with people, but then again, I love my own company, which is when I read most.		105
It's hard to watch your life unfold, and sad. Life changes.	Sad	106
I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.		107
It's true what they say: 'You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.' I miss love. I miss being looked after.		108
I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it.		109
I humbly apologise for reality Television.		110
When people ask me do I believe in feminism - well, I didn't even know I was a feminist. I was the top of the bill; I've always been the top of the bill. So I don't know what equality is.	Equality	111
I was so ordinary, critics couldn't understand it, but looking back, that was the reason for my success. What you see is what you get. People thought, 'I could do that.'		112
If I can't eat the meal in a restaurant, and the waiter asks, 'Is everything all right, Madam?', I tell them that I'm on a diet.	Diet	113
I just thank God when I wake up every day.		114
I would have loved to have cracked America. When I tried, I got homesick. Then, when I was in New York, my nanna died, and I just wanted to come home.		115
I can't say I'm surprised I was successful. I was determined - and I got it.		116
I rarely stay in hotels because I have friends all over the world.		117
Anything which interferes with my social life is a no-no.		118
My idea of baking is buying a ready-make cake mix and throwing in an egg.		119
There's nothing going into my mouth that's not wrapped.		120
I was reading about an age pill that has been developed which they claim will make you live longer. That is not for me.		121
I don't want to live beyond the age of 75. That would be a good point to bow out. I don't want to go on for ever.		122
The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.		123
It is when I am on stage that I feel most comfortable. It is my home. It is the only thing I have known since I was a kid.		124
I wouldn't mind being a talent show judge if it didn't run for too long.		125
The best advice he gave me was to carry on. It would have been difficult to set foot back inside a TV studio if I hadn't carried on - I don't know if I would have ever gone back in.		126
Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the Channel 4 documentary and I resigned from Blind Date.		201
But reality television is here to stay.		202
The difference with me is that I did inhale.		203
It was an unknown thing, a lot of people had very bad trips and I like to be in control.		204
I cannot do business. I cannot sit and say, 'How are you, the weather's great, how's your golf?' I'm like a bull in a china shop.		205
I remember one day my son, our Robert, was looking at me on the settee and looking at me on the television, and then all of a sudden he said: 'Why don't you bring that pretty mummy home with you?' And I thought: 'Oh dear, I'm going to have to dress up at home now as well!'		206
I don't like the selfie because it's too close. There ain't no people with arms long enough to do a selfie of me.		207
After Fergie and Prince Andrew honeymooned at Le Touessrok in Mauritius, Bobby, my late husband, and I were first to stay in their suite. We enjoyed the benefits - all the spoils and the special luxuries. We practically had our own private beach, and it was most romantic.	Romantic	208
It's no fun getting older. I might be wearing beautiful diamond earrings, but they can't take away the pain of losing my hearing.		209
I'm quite subdued, believe it or not. I switch it on for the camera.		210
Back when I was helping put the swing into the swinging '60s, I used to hang out with Cathy McGowan. We'd be doing 'Ready Steady Go!' on T.V., and Biba used to make our dresses. We'd be in the flat in Cromwell Road on Friday night, just before the live show, and they'd still be sewing.		211
I've got a bike in the lounge that I watch Coronation Street on. I never had to watch my weight until I had the children, but with the bike, I'm fine.		212
'Blind Date' was my lifeline. It was 90 minutes when I could forget about everything, forget about the world.		213
On my gravestone, I want 'Here lies the singer,' not 'Here lies the T.V. presenter'.		214
Nothing is a career move. Everything I've done this year has so not been a career move.		215
I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.		216
I did smoke a joint once but I did not enjoy it.		217
I don't want to see older people on T.V. I want to see young, pretty people on T.V.		218
'Blind Date' was based on an Australian show called 'Perfect Match', which I first saw when I was on tour there. And I couldn't understand why it wasn't on British T.V.		219
I never thought I'd be on T.V. For me as a kid in Liverpool, it was a more realistic option to be a singer.		220
I tried never to take anything for granted.		221
I can do the PR thing until the cows come home. That's my nature. I never want to upset anybody.		222
I give 150%. I'm a professional, a pro.		223
I'm apolitical. Where all that Conservative business came along from, I don't know.		224
I like being in charge of the remote control.		225
When I was put up in posh hotels, I thought it was wonderful.		226
If I'm in a rotten mood, I stay in and watch television.		301
I knew I could do anything I wanted to do and go anywhere I wanted to go and not have to worry if I could afford it.		302
I don't want to see a 70-year-old on television.		303
I always wanted to be a star.		304
Turning 70 was a real shock. I thought, 'I'm on the last lap now.'		305
I never liked miming.		306
Really, I'm trying to retire. It's just nobody will let me!		307
I always believed I would be a star.		308
It's a business, and I'm a product. Terrible, isn't it?		309
I'm a 'never say never' girl. Frank Sinatra retired four times. He kept coming back. But there are people in our business who want to die on stage. Literally. I don't want to do that.		310
Its rock n' roll that has done my hearing in.		311
In the Sixties, you needed talent to make it.		312
Who wouldn't fancy Brian Epstein? He was tall and handsome and had money and class.		313
You couldn't give me any more confidence than when I was on T.V. because I was in control, but I wasn't in control in my private life.		314
I love cookery programmes.		315
I'm very quiet off stage.		316
The first time I went to Abbey Road and put those headphones on, I discovered I had two voices. I no longer had to shout in the studio, but I can't knock the Cavern or the other clubs because they gave me my strong voice.		317
You see on 'Britain's Got Talent' and 'X Factor,' they all wear ear plugs. But I could not hear myself when I wore them. So that is where the strong voice came from.		318
I don't see why I should be a dame for just doing what I always wanted to do.		319
I don't want to be a burden on anybody.		320
There's a whole generation out there who don't know that I was a pop singer in the early days.		321
I've got lots of great friends in show business, and that's all they are. Great friends. I'll never marry again - what's the point? I had the best. I've got friends all over the world, and that's enough for me.		322
I've had days when I go in my bedroom for 24 hours at a time. I call them my Cilla Black days, and they're literally black days. It's like the old Boomtown Rats song 'I Don't Like Mondays.' You just want to shut the whole day down.		323
I'm a Roman Catholic. Or was. I was brought up that way and used to say my prayers every night, but I don't pray to God any more. I might use the usual phrases I picked up from my parents, 'Oh, if God spares me next year...' or 'Please God...' but they're only phrases.		324
Having a biopic made is very flattering.		325
T.V. found me. I was offered jobs. It came in handy when I started having babies. Just one night's work, and then I could go home. I loved 'Surprise Surprise', but it was hard work. 'Blind Date' was a doddle by comparison.		326
When I go out, it's to have a good time, not to find a man.		401

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